Ooh, the US copyright office makes a decision! And, I think, clearly a bad one! :) I should weblog, but I'm too lazy right now.

reuters.com/legal/ai-created-i

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A key sentence:

"Consistent with the law, the Office will not knowingly register works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates randomly or automatically without sufficient creative input or intervention from a human author."

The "produced by a machine or a mere mechanical process" part seems uninteresting; the actual criterion is "without sufficient creative input or intervention from a human author". What is sufficient? I may have to read in more detail to see if this is any more than an "I know it when I see it...".

(And are they in danger of declaring large swathes of photography not-copyrightable?)

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